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G. C. HENNING.

LABEL.

No. 334,437. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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UNITED STATESM I ATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. HENNING, OF VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,437, dated January19, 1886.

Application tiled January 30, 1895.

Serial No. 154,403.

(No model.)

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11, asin Fig. 2, with the letters 13. M and To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE C. HENNING, southeast, southwest, andnorthwest. Vilh of IVashington, in the District of Columbia, thisindicator a simple stroke of the pen or haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvepencil opposite or across the proper line will 5 ments inLabels, of which the following `is a indicate at a glance, and even toan ignorant specification. person, the direction of the place to whichMy invention relates to address cards or the parcel is to go, giving anidea of the lolabels for the use of merchants and others, cation by theposition of the line in the figand is designed to facilitate thegivingof diure, as well as by the designation printed on 6o Io rectionsto the porter or messenger. such line. Thisindicatorbis preferablyplaced The invention consists in a novel arrangeat the end of the linesprovided for the name ment of words and devices whereby a simple of theperson and street. stroke or mark of a pen or pencil gives the y It iscommonly desirable that packages be required information to the porteras to each delivered at, before, or after a stated time, 15 of theseveral matters to which the directions and on a given day, and toquickly designate relate. and clearly indicate the hour and day, I pro-Figure 1 represents the card or label in its vide one or more circularrows or lines, c d, preferred form complete; Figs. 2, 3, 4. 6, offigures, from 1 to 12, or from 1 to 24, as and 7, views illustratingdetails and slight vapreferred, and blanks cfg for the year, month, 7o2c riations. and day, thus: 18...., .,month,

Hithe'rto address cards or labels have gen- .day. erally containedsimply a number of blank The arrangement'of the figures may be vaspacesin which the necessary directions were ried considerably withoutaffecting their use, required to be written out as fully as time and thepreferred arrangement being that shown 25 space would permit. Though thetime and in Fig. 1, in which two concentric rows or labor required tothus fill out the few direccircles containing figures from 1 to 12andfrom tions embraced by such cards or labels were 13 to 24,respectively, are used. To indicate small in any single case, much timeand labor the hour ofthe day it is then ony necessary were involved inpreparing the large number to mark any figure required, instead of writ-8O 3o of cards required by mercantile houses doing ing out theinstructions in full, the indicaa large business, and even then thecompara tions A. M. and PJMJ being rendered tively small size of thecard and the time reunnecessary by the use of the twenty-four diquiredto read the directions prevented the visions consecutively numbered.giving of such full instructions as experience It frequently happensthat instructions are 3 5 shows to be desirable. given to deliver beforeor after a designated My invention is designed to obviate these hour,and to give the necessary directions in difficulties, to permit a largeamount of infor such case I provide the two circles c d, above mation tobe plainly given in small compass, mentioned, and print in or by them,respectand to enable a clerk to till out and a porter ively, the wordsdeliver after and deliver 4o or messenger to read the directions quicklybefore.

and with certainty. With these objects in The blanks c f g are iilled inthe usual view the label or card contains one or more way-as, forinstance, 1885, lst month, 30th lines, a, for the name of the person towhom day. the package is to be sent, and for the name of Instead of thetwo concentric rows of figures 4 5 the street and number of the house.running jointly from 1to 24, each may contain To enable the direction ofthe place or sectgures from 1 to 11, the twelfth space being tion of thecity in which the house is located occupied in one row or circle by theletters to be speedily indicated, and with certainty, I A. M and in theother by the letters D provide the card or label with an indicator, b,M. as in the left-hand circle of Fig. 3, or a ICO 5o showing by radiallines the cardinal points of single row of figures may be used from 1 tothe compass-north, south, east, and west- A. M., respectively, inside,and outside of the circle at a point between the figures indicating land ll.

So, too, the single row or circle of figures 1 to 12 may be used, as inthe righthand circle of Fig. 3, the letters A. M. and 1). M. beingplaced above and below the figures indicating 12, or a single circle offigures indicating hours from l to 24 may be adopted, as in Fig. 4..Finally, instead of arranging the gures in the circles, they maybearranged in straight lines, as in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, eitherin two rowsfrom 1 to 12 each, or in one or more rows from l to 24. If in two rows,each containing figures indicating hours from 1 to l2, theletters A.M.77 and 1). M. will be used, as indicated. The circular arrangement ispreferred for the reason that the resemblance to a clock-dial thussecured enables the hour to be more readily noted and with greatercertainty than when the figures are differently arranged.

To provide for the delivery of parcels or packages to depots, stations,or wiiarves at proper time for shipment, or at such time as will insuretheir arrival at their destination by a stated time, I provide a similararrangement of circles, h z', and blanks j lc Z, the circles bearing,respectively, the words train leaves and boat leaves.7

Besides the matters mentioned, the card or label bears the words Soldby; Examine; Collect;7 Exchange;" Take Clik, Leave5 xchange5 Paid5Carriage paid; each Within a separate space containing additional roomsufcient to receive an arbitrary mark of any kind to give the porter ormessenger the required information. For instance, the space containingthe words Sold by may be marked with a letter, figure, or otherarbitrary symbol recognized in the'store or establishment as the markofa certain employ. The space bearing the query Collect will be filledin with the amount to be collected, or left blank, as circumstancesrequire, and so as to the remaining spaces, if not marked, they may beunderstood to require no consideration. This plan gives the informationonly to those knowing the rule of the house sending the parcel. Thewording may of course be varied as the particular line of businessrequires; but the important point of arranging the instructions in themanner indicated, so that a single arbitrary mark shall convey therequired information to the porter or messenger without imparting thesame to the purchaser or others, shouldbe followed in all cases.

Any further instructions and any suitable advertising matter may ofcourse be combined lwith the foregoing; but the above includes thematter which I deem novel and of special importance.

With the card thus arranged, it is necessary onlyto write out the nameof the person, name of street, and number of house. All the rest may befilled in or indicated by a simple penstroke, with the exception of thedate and amount to be collected, if any, which may be quickly done by afew figures.

I am aware that a notched dial provided with figures indicating hourshas been combined with aspring-locking device and pointer and attachedto a clasp for application to boots and shoes and like articles, toindicate the hour at which said articles were to be returned to theowners apartment. This I do not claim.

Mylabel is designed to be printed on paper, and to be thrown away afterbeing once used. The particular hour to beindicated is crossed" ormarked out by a pen or pencil stroke, and the necessity of apointer,catch, or likedevice is obviated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. A card or labelprovided with space for the name and general address, and with anindicator showing the points of the compass, whereon may be designatedthe general direction or section of the city, substantially asdescribed, and adapted to be marked by a simple pen-stroke to indicatethe particular direction required.

2. Alabel provided with a space for an ad- 95 dress, and with figuresindicating the hours of the day, both printed or produced directlythereon, wherebya simple pen or pencil mark may be made to designate thetime at, after, or before which a parcel is to be delivered to theaddress written on the card.

3. An address card or label provided with a series of questions adaptedto be marked to constitute directions, as explained, whereby thenecessary information may be given to a porter or other person withoutbeing disclosed to a purchaser.

ft. The herein-described card or label provided with space a for thegeneral address, indicator b, adapted, when marked, to indicate thegeneral direction, circles odia z', bearing figures indicating hours ofthe day, and instructions as to delivery of goods, spaces efgj k Z, toreceive indications as to dates, and a series of instructions in theform of questions, all snbx15 stantially as set forth and shown.

` GEO. C. HENNING.

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Witnesses:

JNO. W. BLAKELocK, S. KATZENSTEIN.

